Poem four
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Poem Three
Poems of Théodore de Banville (Part Two)
I visited Paris again this October and spent an enjoyable two days of long random walks wherever my feet and lack of directional sense took me. Here are some photographs of the Paris I love. Read more »
A story
This is a story of a dream. Read more »
Poem two
She walked with me in the woods in the fading light of a still evening. Intimate perfumes of her warm closeness caressed me Filling me with desire. Read more »
Poem one
Yummy Kerala food, recipe one: Dosa part 3
The dosa batter ought to have fermented after eight hours of warm rest. Here we pour portions of it on a hot griddle to make yummy dosa, and enjoy it with some fresh, pure coconut chutney! Read more »
How to print great B&W photos (4) - generating the Gutenprint ink curves
Polynomial equations were used to express ink densities as a function of gray level in the previous part of this series of articles on B&W printing. Here we present the Mathematica notebook that can be used to generate the ink-curve values to be pasted into the Gutenprint XML printer definition… Read more »
Yummy Kerala food, recipe one: Dosa part 2
This part of making the dosa is all about grinding. Read on to figure out how to turn the soaked daal and rice from the previous part into a paste for fermentation. Read more »
How to print great B&W photos (3) - creating printer ink channel density curves
After redirecting the C, M, and Y channels of R2880 and printing the test strips we measure their density values and express them as equations to be used in creating ink shape modulation curves for Gutenprint. These curves are generated with the help of Mathematica. Their creation is explained in… Read more »
Yummy Kerala food, recipe one: Dosa part 1
There is a crêpe-like dish made for breakfast in southern India called Dosa in Malalayalam or Dosai in Tamil. Here is one way to make it. Read more »
How to print great B&W photos (2) - redirecting the CMY channels
Ink channel definitions relevant to R2880 need to be modified so that in three colour composite mode the cyan, magenta, and yellow inks are substituted with the LLK, PK, and LK inks. Read more »
A walk along the St Andrews Pier
One warm summer afternoon a young couple went for a stroll along the pier in St Andrews... Read more »
Poems of Théodore de Banville (Part One)
A chance find of an old book while rummaging through an untidy pile in a small second-hand bookshop not too far from the Sacred Heart Church of Montmartre led me to this nineteenth century French poet. Read more »
A Kerala fantasy movie
Sixteenth century Kerala had remarkably harmonious Hindu-Muslim relations. Here is a movie based on a legend from that time. Read more »
How to print great B&W photos - introduction
Details on using the Epson R2880 to print black and white photos with subtle grays and deep, rich blacks. You need Adobe CS4 and the PhotoGP plug-in, and some tweaks to the Gutenprint xml files that describe the inksets and other printer properties. The results are worth the pain... Read more »
Welcome to the house of Kālan
Poetry, Physics, Cooking, and Photography, in no particular order. Read more »
